Krillion Recorded answers
1,881 recorded answers
How to approach it
The question is deliberately loose, so the work is breadth first and precision second. Begin by stating the obvious reading, a pointed shaft used to pierce or guide, and then run through whole fields of activity one by one: measuring and diagnostic instruments, clinical procedures, textile crafts, machinery and the living world. For each field, push past the everyday example toward the specific named version, because a precise technical term is far less likely to be duplicated by other players. Keep a mental filter: the whole object must be one whose own name sits naturally beside the word, not a sentence that merely mentions one. Rank your candidates from most familiar to most obscure and submit the rarest one you can defend.
Get a hint
Begin with the literal core: a slender pointed shaft, sometimes with an eye for thread, sometimes with a hub that swings across a scale, sometimes nothing but a spike.
A little more
Fan out across domains next: workshops that read pressure, speed or temperature, clinics that draw or deliver fluid, fibre crafts and living things armed with slender spines.
One step further
Aim for the whole name rather than the part: an instrument, a technique, a cultivated variety or a species that carries its own label, since the narrowest recognised term is what reaches the top band.
Reveal answers 1,881
- Roosmalen's dwarf porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Rose cactusDeep Cut85points
- Rose flower urchinDeep Cut85points
- RosemaryDeep Cut85points
- Rothschild's porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Roving PricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Royen's tree cactusDeep Cut85points
- Rudder angle indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Rusty Hedgehog CactusDeep Cut85points
- Ryukyu juniperDeep Cut85points
- Rzedowski's PineDeep Cut85points
- S-meterDeep Cut85points
- Saba laceDeep Cut85points
- Sacramento Mountain foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Sacred firDeep Cut85points
- Sacroiliac joint injectionDeep Cut85points
- SacroplastyDeep Cut85points
- SaddleryDeep Cut85points
- Sagebrush chollaDeep Cut85points
- SailmakingDeep Cut85points
- Sak yantDeep Cut85points
- Sakhalin FirDeep Cut85points
- Sakhalin SpruceDeep Cut85points
- Saline tattoo removalDeep Cut85points
- Salween firDeep Cut85points
- San Andres Mountain foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- San Antonio pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- San Diego Barrel CactusDeep Cut85points
- San Esteban hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- San Pedro cactusDeep Cut85points
- San Rafael CactusDeep Cut85points
- Sand pineDeep Cut85points
- Santa Cruz Beehive CactusDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Saphenous nerve blockDeep Cut85points
- Sargent's SpruceDeep Cut85points
- SashikoDeep Cut85points
- Sauna thermometerDeep Cut85points
- Sausage prickerDeep Cut85points
- Scalp acupunctureDeep Cut85points
- Scalp micropigmentationDeep Cut85points
- Scalp piercingDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet Ball CactusDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet Hedgehog CactusDeep Cut85points
- Scheer's fishhook cactusDeep Cut85points
- Schiffli embroidery machineDeep Cut85points
- Schwalm embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Schwarz's Barrel CactusDeep Cut85points
- Schwerdtfeger's PineDeep Cut85points
- Sciatic nerve blockDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Of the 1,881 answers that made the official reveal, 1,850 cleared sixty points, and the distribution tells the story: a single answer took 100, 1,677 landed on 85, and only 172 settled at 60. The crowded middle band is where specificity lives — Anemometer, Algometer, Amigurumi, Apadravya piercing — each a recognised named thing rather than a generic category, so each was claimed by comparatively few players. The lone 100-point entry, Coravin, shows what the very top looks like: a precise product name that almost nobody else thought to write. The 60-point group, by contrast, is the price of arriving at the broad, first-instinct phrasing that thousands of competitors reach within seconds. Nothing about the question favours expertise in one field; it rewards the willingness to leave the obvious domain and keep hunting through instruments, procedures, crafts, cultivars and species until the label stops being interchangeable.